Lightning vs Sabres Prediction
The Tampa Bay Lightning and Buffalo Sabres meet Saturday in NHL action at the KeyBank Center. Let’s preview this game and give out a pick and prediction.
The Tampa Bay Lightning are averaging 3.5 goals per game and are scoring on 26.1 percent of their power play opportunities. Brayden Point leads Tampa Bay with 38 goals, Nikita Kucherov has 64 assists and Steven Stamkos has 202 shots on goal. Defensively, the Tampa Bay Lightning are allowing 3 goals per game and are killing 81.4 percent of their opponent’s power plays. Andrei Vasilevskiy has given up 120 goals on 1,448 shots faced, and Brian Elliott has allowed 48 goals on 464 shots.
The Buffalo Sabres are averaging 3.7 goals per game and are scoring on 24.8 percent of their power play opportunities. Tage Thompson leads Buffalo with 41 goals, Rasmus Dahlin has 48 assists and Alex Tuch has 164 shots on goal. Defensively, the Buffalo Sabres are allowing 3.6 goals per game and are killing 72.3 percent of their opponent’s power plays. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen has given up 91 goals on 845 shots faced, and Craig Anderson has given up 56 goals on 683 shots.
The Lightning are 38-14 in their last 52 games playing on 1 days rest and 1-4 in their last 5 overall. The Sabres are 1-4 in their last 5 home games and 6-2 in their last 8 Saturday games. The over is 5-2 in Lightning last 7 overall. The over is 5-1 in Sabres last 6 overall. The Lightning are 5-1 in the last 6 meetings in Buffalo and 24-6 in the last 30 meetings. The favorite is 37-16 in the last 53 meetings.
The Tampa Bay Lightning are having a rough week, but they're still comfortably the better team here, and we know these losing stretches don't last forever. The Buffalo Sabres continue to come up short in big games, and their defense cant be trusted against quality teams. Early starts usually favor the home teams, but I have more confidence in the Lightning righting the ship before the Sabres. I'll lay the juice.
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